From what I have found with Google, polling is enabled by default. The device switches between interrupt mode and polling depending on whether there is more data than interrupt mode can handle. Basically, if it is a low load on the network, it uses the interrupt mode. If the load is to heavy for the device, then it switches to polling mode.

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